Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,617
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$20,583
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$72,417
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$99,200
Kept after tax
$78,617
Worth in national money
$72,417
State rank
1
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $99,200, putting the state 1 of 50 — about 33.89% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 128 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $99,200, tax leaves $78,617 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $72,417 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $100,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- For electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $99,200, ranking 1 of 50 and running about 33.89% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment ranks 128 of 493 occupations in Washington by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $78,617 remains from the Washington median of $99,200 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $72,417 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $100,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,440 |
| This salary | $99,200 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Washington | $78,617 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,617 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,486 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $99,200 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,722 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,200 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $68,910 and the ninetieth is $122,440 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $78,617, from $99,200, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 128 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $72,417 uses one figure for the whole of Washington. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 128.
- The Washington median of $99,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $68,910 to $122,440. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $78,617 from $99,200. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 128 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $72,417, worked from $99,200, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Washington address, on work sitting at 128 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $68,910 at the tenth percentile, $122,440 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $72,417 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $78,617 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($68,910 to $122,440) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $72,417 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $78,617 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.